Her Neighbor’s Clients Keep Parking On Her Front Yard, So She Started Leaving Notes — Then Turned On The Sprinklers
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What would you do if someone visiting your next door neighbor parked on your front yard? I don’t mean parking on the side of the street in front of your house. I mean parking on the actual grass in your front yard.
In this story, one homeowner is dealing with this exact situation, and she’s especially upset about it because she has a sprinkler system that can get broken if cars are parking or driving on the grass.
She decided to let the vehicles’ owners know how she felt, but now, she’s wondering if she went too far.
Let’s read all about it.
AITA for refusing to let people park on my yard?
Neighbor runs a weekly yoga class out of her home.
We are generally amicable and had a polite conversation about this prior.
This has been an ongoing issue with her clients parking their vehicles on the street.
The road is wide enough and the neighborhood is quiet, there is no need for them to pull onto the lawn at all.
It’s really important to OP that nobody parks on her lawn.
My yard came with an irrigation system, and it’s expensive and time consuming to repair.
I acknowledged that sprinkler systems fail anyways, I’ve sheared enough heads off with the mower to know that, so I can’t say for certain that it’s her customers causing the damage, but to please police it better and respect my boundaries.
There is plenty of pavement – park along to road each week as you see fit, I don’t care.
Uh-oh!
Yesterday when I came home, all I wanted was some peace after an absolutely soul crushing work week, and to my dismay there are two vehicles parked almost entirely up on my front lawn.
This time I was a bit more assertive and left written notes.
I made it clear they were not welcome to park on my property but the pavement was fine.
I did turn on the irrigation for that zone until they left.
Only one person apologized.
One lady came to my door and at least apologized and we had a reasonable and brief conversation.
The $100k Mercedes did not and proceeded to drive another 30’ across my lawn when she left.
Every other individual in this scenario is a retired boomer, whereas I am a millennial trying to raise a family.
Am I the only one that finds this type of behavior extremely entitled and disrespectful? I feel bad about the sprinklers, it was quite a passive aggressive move, but I wanted to make a point and thought bringing some sensory stimulation to the moment might help the message be received. AITA?
Yikes! Why would anyone think it’s okay to park on someone’s front yard? I don’t understand that at all. If she can afford it, she needs a fence.
Let’s see what Reddit suggets.
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Here’s a vote for a tow truck.
Another person has several suggestions.
This person thinks OP is too nice.
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a neighbor who steps in to stop illegal driveway construction for friends down the road.
Here are some more ideas.
Next time, the homeowner needs to call a tow truck. No parking signs would also be a good idea.
It should be obvious that you shouldn’t park on someone’s front yard. It’s not wrong to be upset about this.
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